Hidden inside ages sit ages, gaes, and sage, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 15 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ages, gaes, and sage tie for the highest Scrabble score from ages at 5 points. The top 10 of 15 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 four-letter words hiding in ages: two come from rearranging its letters, and ages itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages. For points, the strongest plays are ages, gaes, and sage — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
29 five-letter words can be made using all the letters in ages plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ages and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
ages is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record eight senses for ages. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 5 points on a Scrabble board:
ages is one of three four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ages unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ages, gaes, and sage, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ages earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in ages produce 15 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.